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NEMESIA bicornis Pers. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
NEMESIA bicornis Pers. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. ii. 159;—Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 20; and in DC. Prodr. x. 262; not of Sieb.
Antirrhinum bicorne Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Amœn. Acad. vi. 88; Thunb. Hort. Upsal. Plant. cult. 1803, 34, Thunb. Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 482.
Antirrhinum capense Burm. f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Fl. Cap. Prodr. 16; not of Thunb.
NEMESIA versicolor Drège [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Linnæa xx. 197, not of E. Meyer.
NEMESIA biennis Drège [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr, Documente, 107.
Linaria foliis copiosis oblongis dentatis, capsula corniculata reflexa Burm. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rar. Afr. Pl. 211, t. 75, fig. 3 (1738).
Linaria Dracocephali folio Petiv. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Mus. Pet. 40, n. 430 (31 Aug. 1699); Herb. Petiver. in Herb. Sloan. vol. cclvi. fol. 63.
Information
an erect or ascending herb, annual, sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous at least below, shining, simple or branched from the base or upwards, 1/3–2 ft. high; stem and branches quadrangular, smooth; upper internodes of the flowering stems and branches exceeding the leaves; leaves mostly opposite, sometimes fasciculate-verticillate, oval, ovate, lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse at the apex, obtuse at the subamplexicaul sessile base or the lower obtusely narrowed and shortly petiolate, toothed, often strongly so, glabrous or somewhat pilose, 1/4–2 in. long, 1/40–1 in. broad; petioles short or obsolete or ranging up to 1/2 in. long; racemes terminating the stem and branches, subcorymbose or elongated, many-flowered, 1–14 in. long; bracts alternate, mostly smaller than the leaves; pedicels slender, mostly pubescent or pilose and 1/4–1 in. long; flowers white and striped with coloured lines outside; calyx-segments oblong or narrowly ovate-oval, obtuse, puberulous, more or less spreading, 1/12– 1/8 in. long in flower, 1/8– 1/6 in. long in fruit; upper corolla-lobes ovate-oblong or oval-oblong, rounded at the apex, 1/6– 1/3 in. long, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad; lower lip rounded, bifid, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; palate bearded, bicallose; spur linear, obtuse, straight, 1/6– 1/5 in. long; filaments white; anthers yellow; capsule obcordate, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, with diverging points or short horns at the outer sides of the curved tops of the valves, 1/4– 3/8 in. long and broad. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; on sand-hills at Ebenezar, below 500 ft., Drège, 3142 c! Wind Hoek, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8335! Clanwilliam Div.; between Jakhals River and Heerelogement, Drège, 381 b! Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1272! Bolus, 3722! sand-flats between Tyger Berg and Blue Berg, below 500 ft., Drège! Camp ground, Wolley Dod, 152! near Diep River, Wolley Dod, 1108! near and beyond Simonstown, Wolley Dod, 153! 424! Schlechter, 1194! near Cape Town and between it and the Drakensteen Mountains, Thunberg!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Herb. Burmann! Grey! Pappe! Forster!
Notes
This is a variable species and difficult to distinguish from its allies; there are twelve sheets so classed in Thunberg's herbarium.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
NEMESIA bicornis Pers. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. ii. 159;—Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 20; and in DC. Prodr. x. 262; not of Sieb.
Antirrhinum bicorne Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Amœn. Acad. vi. 88; Thunb. Hort. Upsal. Plant. cult. 1803, 34, Thunb. Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 482.
Antirrhinum capense Burm. f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Fl. Cap. Prodr. 16; not of Thunb.
NEMESIA versicolor Drège [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Linnæa xx. 197, not of E. Meyer.
NEMESIA biennis Drège [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr, Documente, 107.
Linaria foliis copiosis oblongis dentatis, capsula corniculata reflexa Burm. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rar. Afr. Pl. 211, t. 75, fig. 3 (1738).
Linaria Dracocephali folio Petiv. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Mus. Pet. 40, n. 430 (31 Aug. 1699); Herb. Petiver. in Herb. Sloan. vol. cclvi. fol. 63.
Information
an erect or ascending herb, annual, sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous at least below, shining, simple or branched from the base or upwards, 1/3–2 ft. high; stem and branches quadrangular, smooth; upper internodes of the flowering stems and branches exceeding the leaves; leaves mostly opposite, sometimes fasciculate-verticillate, oval, ovate, lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse at the apex, obtuse at the subamplexicaul sessile base or the lower obtusely narrowed and shortly petiolate, toothed, often strongly so, glabrous or somewhat pilose, 1/4–2 in. long, 1/40–1 in. broad; petioles short or obsolete or ranging up to 1/2 in. long; racemes terminating the stem and branches, subcorymbose or elongated, many-flowered, 1–14 in. long; bracts alternate, mostly smaller than the leaves; pedicels slender, mostly pubescent or pilose and 1/4–1 in. long; flowers white and striped with coloured lines outside; calyx-segments oblong or narrowly ovate-oval, obtuse, puberulous, more or less spreading, 1/12– 1/8 in. long in flower, 1/8– 1/6 in. long in fruit; upper corolla-lobes ovate-oblong or oval-oblong, rounded at the apex, 1/6– 1/3 in. long, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad; lower lip rounded, bifid, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; palate bearded, bicallose; spur linear, obtuse, straight, 1/6– 1/5 in. long; filaments white; anthers yellow; capsule obcordate, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, with diverging points or short horns at the outer sides of the curved tops of the valves, 1/4– 3/8 in. long and broad. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; on sand-hills at Ebenezar, below 500 ft., Drège, 3142 c! Wind Hoek, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8335! Clanwilliam Div.; between Jakhals River and Heerelogement, Drège, 381 b! Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1272! Bolus, 3722! sand-flats between Tyger Berg and Blue Berg, below 500 ft., Drège! Camp ground, Wolley Dod, 152! near Diep River, Wolley Dod, 1108! near and beyond Simonstown, Wolley Dod, 153! 424! Schlechter, 1194! near Cape Town and between it and the Drakensteen Mountains, Thunberg!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Herb. Burmann! Grey! Pappe! Forster!
Notes
This is a variable species and difficult to distinguish from its allies; there are twelve sheets so classed in Thunberg's herbarium.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
NEMESIA bicornis Pers. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. ii. 159;—Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 20; and in DC. Prodr. x. 262; not of Sieb.
Antirrhinum bicorne Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Amœn. Acad. vi. 88; Thunb. Hort. Upsal. Plant. cult. 1803, 34, Thunb. Prodr. 105, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 482.
Antirrhinum capense Burm. f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Fl. Cap. Prodr. 16; not of Thunb.
NEMESIA versicolor Drège [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Linnæa xx. 197, not of E. Meyer.
NEMESIA biennis Drège [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr, Documente, 107.
Linaria foliis copiosis oblongis dentatis, capsula corniculata reflexa Burm. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rar. Afr. Pl. 211, t. 75, fig. 3 (1738).
Linaria Dracocephali folio Petiv. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Mus. Pet. 40, n. 430 (31 Aug. 1699); Herb. Petiver. in Herb. Sloan. vol. cclvi. fol. 63.
Information
an erect or ascending herb, annual, sparingly pubescent or nearly glabrous at least below, shining, simple or branched from the base or upwards, 1/3–2 ft. high; stem and branches quadrangular, smooth; upper internodes of the flowering stems and branches exceeding the leaves; leaves mostly opposite, sometimes fasciculate-verticillate, oval, ovate, lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse at the apex, obtuse at the subamplexicaul sessile base or the lower obtusely narrowed and shortly petiolate, toothed, often strongly so, glabrous or somewhat pilose, 1/4–2 in. long, 1/40–1 in. broad; petioles short or obsolete or ranging up to 1/2 in. long; racemes terminating the stem and branches, subcorymbose or elongated, many-flowered, 1–14 in. long; bracts alternate, mostly smaller than the leaves; pedicels slender, mostly pubescent or pilose and 1/4–1 in. long; flowers white and striped with coloured lines outside; calyx-segments oblong or narrowly ovate-oval, obtuse, puberulous, more or less spreading, 1/12– 1/8 in. long in flower, 1/8– 1/6 in. long in fruit; upper corolla-lobes ovate-oblong or oval-oblong, rounded at the apex, 1/6– 1/3 in. long, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad; lower lip rounded, bifid, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; palate bearded, bicallose; spur linear, obtuse, straight, 1/6– 1/5 in. long; filaments white; anthers yellow; capsule obcordate, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, with diverging points or short horns at the outer sides of the curved tops of the valves, 1/4– 3/8 in. long and broad. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; on sand-hills at Ebenezar, below 500 ft., Drège, 3142 c! Wind Hoek, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8335! Clanwilliam Div.; between Jakhals River and Heerelogement, Drège, 381 b! Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1272! Bolus, 3722! sand-flats between Tyger Berg and Blue Berg, below 500 ft., Drège! Camp ground, Wolley Dod, 152! near Diep River, Wolley Dod, 1108! near and beyond Simonstown, Wolley Dod, 153! 424! Schlechter, 1194! near Cape Town and between it and the Drakensteen Mountains, Thunberg!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Herb. Burmann! Grey! Pappe! Forster!
Notes
This is a variable species and difficult to distinguish from its allies; there are twelve sheets so classed in Thunberg's herbarium.
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